The lake Ramsko jezero

This artificial lake has been created in 1968. The bed of the river Rama has been baffled.in its upper stream near the village Mluša by a dam made of stone fill up with an upstream concrete screen. The dam is about a 100 meters high. Its width in the foundational joint is about 305 meters. 

The lake is a real beauty. It is about 70 to 100 meters deep by the dam. The distance between the dam and Varvara is about 7.5 kilometers. The length of the shore is about 29 kilometers. The island Šćit is made even more beautiful by a dike. Other two little islands, Umac and Škarine, brake the monotony of the surrounding. The lake has a semicircle shape, with many bays. The mild dropping of the bays makes the lake accessible from all sides. The deepest point of the lake is at 95 meters under the water. It is located on the land that was fertile and had a lot of agricultural potential.

There is a lot of loam on the bottom of the water. That is why the shores of the lake are very muddy. This happens because of the constant oscillation of the water. The water is often blurred, especially in the afternoons when the wind inhibits the waves that hit the shores. The lake is normally clear and green colored. The lake fills up after the enormous amount of the snow melt, but the constant emptying of the accumulation in order to produce electricity waste the water.

That is why the lake is almost always half empty in the summer. The regular flow in of the water comes in from Rama, Buka and Krupić, and from other small brooks and springs. The spring of Rama is located underneath the surface of the lake. This river is very cold at its spring (7.5 degrees), but the surface of the lake warms up quickly for the swimmers. There are a lot of them when the lake is full. Sometimes the parts of the lake freeze during the winter. There are many kinds of fish in the lake, like trout carp, pikeperch...there are not many vessels to be seen on this lake, because of the constant oscillation of the water.

The traffic until the lake is available by a road from Prozorand by a newly opened road that leads from Tomislavgrad, Livno and Split. It is possible to come to the Ramsko jezero even from Prozor over Blidinje, Kedžare and Orašac.